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On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

Creator: Ian Fleming -James Bond
Offered by: Shapero Gallery

Description
On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

Stock Code 107279
London, Jonathan Cape.1963

The second title in the 'Blofeld trilogy', preceded by Thunderball (1961) and concluding with You Only Live Twice (1964). In the novel Bond adopts the guise of College of Arms herald Sir Hilary Bray to allow him access to Blofeld's secret lair on the Piz Gloria, a fictional mountain top in the Swiss Alps. Whilst there Bond discovers SPECTRE's latest diabolical scheme, to destroy the British & Irish economies via a group of female patients at Blofeld's clinic, brainwashed into becoming 'mules' for biological agents to be smuggled into Britain and Ireland. The novel is also significant in the Bond canon for the tragic love-interest supplied by Contessa Teresa 'Tracy' di Vicenzo.

Description

First edition, first impression; 8vo; publisher's dark brown boards with ski-track motif to front board, titles to spine in silver. With the dust jacket. Boards a little faded, very good in the somewhat marked and frayed dust jacket.

Bibliography

Gilbert A11a 1.1.

Stock ID:107279

More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Period:	1950-1979
Creation Date:	1963
Styles / Movements:	Modern, Mid Century
Dealer Reference #:	107279
Incollect Reference #:	606737

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